Beekeeping News
A curated selection of worldwide feeds related around the topic of beekeeping and honeybees.
September 22, 2026 — SIOUX CITY (KTIV TV, Sioux City) — Sioux Honey Association Co-op has broken ground on a multi-million-dollar facility near the Sioux Gateway Airport. Company details plans for new plant Kevin Hueser, president and CEO of Sioux Honey Co-op, said the $130 million capital investmen…
Raw Honey Guide offers a calendar of 35 honey varieties with indicative seasonal windows for their listed growing regions. It brings northern and southern hemisphere entries into one month-by-month reference, with filters for viewing either hemisphere separately. The calendar is intended as a starti…
The Department of Entomology at the University of Minnesota is pleased to announce that Dr. Lewis Bartlett will join the faculty as the Spivak/Manitou Fund Honey Bee Chair and Assistant Professor, effective September 2027. This endowed position was established through generous donor support to ensur…
A Cautionary Tale of Woe and Intrigue By: James Fischer Imagine buying a new home, zoned for mixed residential/agricultural use, and then having the town property board refuse approval for beehives on your land. Beekeeper association officers should heed this story because your local government migh…
Are We Any Better Off? Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: James E. Tew Why 100 years?In recent years, I have entered a “reflective” period in my relationship with my bees. In my fifty-plus years of being involv…
An Emerging Area of Significant Scientific Investigation Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad It is not a stretch to say that honey bees and other pollinators are critical to maintaining our global fo…
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns In my first few years as a new beekeeper, I thought that becoming a better beekeeper meant you started to have more hives. Even though I only started with one […
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop We’ve been keeping chickens for fifteen years, even though they serve no practical purpose but to provide the ambiance of a mild domestic disturbance. Apparentl…
“Disabeeity” – When the Doctor Becomes the Patient Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Dr. Tracy Farone A quick AI search of “the average age of the American beekeeper” presents results in the 50-60 years range.…
Creating Beekeepers, Not Just Bee Owners Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Richard Wahl Clubs, Conferences or Bee SchoolsHaving visited many clubs and attended numerous conferences throughout my years as a bee…
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Theresa J. Martin I attended the Eastern Apiculture Society (EAS) Conference on July 27-29, and came home with new knowledge, new questions, and a renewed appreciation for how…
A Fungicide Miss Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Becky Masterman When honey bee workers entomb something in their nest, maybe we should listen to them? When colonies use propolis to wall off the pollen store…
A Tale of Two Viruses Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Jay Evans For mindless organisms with fewer than ten known proteins in their arsenal (several of which have the single role of building a shell to live […
What Winter Feeding Can Do For Your Bottom Line By: Anne Marie Fauvel, Honey Bee Vitality, LLC & Dr. Brandon Hopkins, Washington State University Key TakeawayA newly published scientific study — the largest and longest of its kind — demonstrates that feeding honey bee colonies a nutritionally co…
Honey Ginger & Green Tea Stir Fry Sauce By: Danielle DeLuca – Owner of Your Culinary Experience Ingredients□ ¼ Cup White Balsamic Vinegar□ 1 Cup Strong Brewed Ginger Green Tea, roomtemperature (Bigelow brand is preferred)□ 1 tbsp Fresh Ginger, grated□ 2 Cloves of Garlic, grated□ Zest and j…
Lost as Interpreted By the Closure of BeltsvilleAgricultural Research Center (BARC) in Maryland By: John Miller Is this closure of a specific facility – charged with fulfilling a broad mandate actually a tragedy? No doubt for the nine full time positions, nine families face relocation to other Feder…
By: Charlotte Hubbard & Bob Candido Method OverviewsThirteen colonies, randomly divided into three groups, were employed in the experiment. All colonies had screened bottom boards with slider boards inserted, and a mouse-guard entrance reducer. We also installed feeding shims to allow for the ad…
Funding will support PHIRA-Science research on an emerging threat to honey bee colonies   OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. — HONEES, the honey-filled drop brand, has announced a $10,000 grant to support research focused on protecting honey bees from Tropilaelaps, an emerging parasitic mite that is raising c…
Professor Neal Williams of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, a pollinator ecologist internationally recognized for his research on bee and pollination biology, is a newly elected Fellow of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). The ESA Governing Board elected Williams and ei…
New Section 301 tariffs and a shifting import map are colliding with a tight domestic crop, setting up a volatile marketing season for U.S. beekeepers. August 11, 2026 — Steven Coy, President, American Honey Producers Association As the 2026 summer honey crop extraction gets underway, the U.S. honey…
This is Not a Titling Error, But it is an Unusual Article Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: James E. Tew A unique article in a unique formatBC readers, I have never before written an article like this. [……
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Every year, it seems like I stumble upon a yellow jacket nest. This year it was in a storage room in the barn, in a paper box on a shelf. […]
Sacred Bee Space Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad Today’s beekeepers are very familiar with bee space. It lies at the heart of the removable frame hive design, and led to the development of an ent…
The Fast Track to Beekeeping Experience Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns You cannot become a good beekeeper simply by reading books, attending conferences or classes or by watching YouTube. Good b…
More Than Just Honey Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Richard Wahl Beyond the Honey JarMost people who decide to keep honey bees do so for one reason, the honey. They picture amber jars lined up on a [……
It’s What’s for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Theresa J. Martin Over 250 years ago, George Washington was a forward-thinking beekeeper at his Mount Vernon estate. He…
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Can You Eat Your Way Out of a Pickle? By: Jay Evans Like us bony creatures, insects need balanced nutrition to function, and honey bees are no exception. On top of sugar from […
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Kara Brook Brown In May I sat in my truck at the edge of a forty acre field and did arithmetic I did not want to do. The clover was gone. Not […]
AI Chatbots – You Get What You Ask For Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Becky Masterman If you don’t care about AI chatbots, I understand. But maybe you should reconsider your position. The increasing n…
Does it make a difference in overwintering success? Xianzhong Wang Overwintering honey bee colonies is a challenge wherever bees are kept, particularly in northern climates. Colonies can perish in Winter for a myriad of reasons, including condensed water dribbling down on the Winter cluster. As a re…